"Telemedicine is an upcoming field in health science arising out of the effective fusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with Medical Science having enormous potential in meeting the challenges of healthcare delivery to rural and remote areas besides several other applications in education, training and management in health sector.

It may be as simple as two health professionals discussing medical problems of a patient and seeking advice over a simple telephone to as complex as transmission of electronic medical records of clinical information, diagnostic tests such as E.C.G., radiological images etc. and carrying out real time interactive medical video conference with the help of IT based hardware and software, video-confernce using broadband telecommunication media provided by satellite and terrestrial network"

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Good governance= Improved quality of life= Social and Economic Growth. It is not the role of governments or their character which is likely to change drastically in the next decade. By adopting technology,
the same governments can aim to truly bring about change in the lives of their people.

Aiming to provide various internet-based services in rural areas, the government will soon start a pilot project offering services such as tele-education, Wifi and LED-based lighting across three states under its ‘DigiGaon’ programme.

Uttar Pradesh health minister Siddharth Nath Singh on Wednesday announced that the state government will soon issue a toll free number for
free telemedicine services in the interior and rural areas of the state.

There is no doubt about the fact that doctors who are proficient in computer science do have an edge over others.
These professionals can turn several ideas into reality, solve trivial healthcare concerns and will be ready for future digital disruption.

Patients will soon be able to get appointments with doctors in 100 district hospitals of the state using their mobile phones. Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad
Tuesday said that the state, with the Centre’s help, would link 100 hospitals under the ‘e-hospital’ scheme within the next six months.

IIT-Kharagpur has come up with a life-saver technology that can be fitted in an ambulance to ensure remote monitoring of the condition of a patient by the doctors even before they reach the hospital.
This one-of-a-kind technology ‘AmbuSens’ has been developed in the SWAN Lab of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at IIT-KGP.

In its first action dissaciation one of its programmes from the Public health Foundation of India (PHFI), the
health ministry has decided to take away its role in the mission Indradhanush vaccination campaign.

The days of claiming artificial intelligence as a feature that set one startup or company apart from the others are over. These days, one would be hard-pressed to find any
technology company attracting venture funding or partnerships that doesn’t posit to use some form of machine learning.

Modern medical research confirms smell of skin, breath, bodily fluids can be suggestive of illnessBlindfolded, would you know the smell of your mom, a lover or a co-worker?
Not the smells of their colognes or perfumes, not of the laundry detergents they use — the smells of them?.

Facing acute shortage of doctors on the state, the health ministry has given its nod to launching of telemedicine services in all government
hospitals in the state. we are planning to launch telemedicine system in UP and working out modalities before its launch in about six months.

Doctors specialising in the treatment of heart and brain stroke are saying all efforts should be made to start treating patients within the first half an hour to reduce mortality and morbidity,
said interventional cardiologist and Managing Director of the Ramesh Group of Hospitals, P. Ramesh Babu.

In the events leading to the cancellation of its FCRA Licence, the think tank public health foundation of india (PHFI) had been sying essentially the same thing to MPs that a government ministry has done during successive dispensations, and futhering discouragement of tobacca use-
often in partnership with the government a cause that the government itself is committed to by an international treaty.

The President said that there is a severe shortage of mental health professionals in India and this service gap can be bridged effectively by telemedicine. The World Health Day Summit has
begun in the right direction by launching the eCAP & SOL’s Telepsychiatry application for the rural and urban population in need of mental health consultation.

Stating that District government hospital had well-equipped labs and expert doctors, Collector Gaurav Uppal stated that plans were afoot to arrange telemedicine facility to provide the best medical treatment to the patients in the district.

Narayana Health Group that runs RN Tagore Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Mukundapur, Kolkata and Narayana Superspeciality & Multispeciality hospitals in Howrah
announced the launch of its fourth e- Health Centre in West Bengal at Tikiapara in Howrah district.

There is lack of awareness about new medical products and diagnostic tools and technology are being used under the National Health Mission to overcome this, Minister of State for Health Anupriya Patel.

On the occasion of ‘World Oral Health Day’ Faggan Singh Kulaste, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare along with CK Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Dr Jagdish Prasad,
Director General of Health Services, launched the Information, Education and Communication (IEC) material.